Politics

One of President Trump's biggest white nationalist Twitter boosters — who spread anti-Semitic and racist views and nicknamed himself after Charlie Sheen's character in "Major League" — has been revealed to be a 28-year-old Manhattanite in the finance industry.
During...

Metro columnist Ellis Henican imagines a possible conversation between President Donald Trump and his attorney Ty Cobb as the two prepare for the president to face an interrogation from special counsel Robert Mueller.
Attorney Ty Cobb: Special counsels don’t invite people over just...

The Trump administration is known for its revolving door: More than three dozen Cabinet members and senior aides hired or nominated by Trump have departed his presidential orbit. (And that's not even counting Trump's firings of people he inherited, like James Comey and Sally Yates.)...

The question from Oregon Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden seemed harmless. He asked the Homeland Security crew if they had noticed, by chance, any foreign operators using super-secret devices to spy on cell phones around the nation’s capital. Then the answer came back — well,...

Fake news may have been enough to swing the 2016 presidential election, depressing Democratic turnout for Hillary Clinton by about 4 percent, a new study suggests.
Democratic strategists have wondered why a chunk of 2012 Obama voters defected from the Democrats in November 2016. An analysis by...

Christ has died, Christ has risen — Donald Trump is going to insult again.
What? You thought that Easter, the holiest day of the Christian calendar, might soften the heart of America’s insult-spewing president?
Then, you probably also believe in the Easter Bunny! Anyone hoping for a...

The White House communications director used to be fairly obscure to the public, a largely behind-the-scenes operator who ceded the roles of public face and headline machine to the press secretary.
No longer. Like so many other elements of the Trump administration, the comings and goings of...

Stacey Dash, best known for her role as Dionne Davenport in the 1995 comedy "Clueless," announced she was running for Congress last month. The official paperwork was signed on Feb. 26 — she planned on being a Republican representative for California’s 44th ...

More than half of Americans think President Trump won't be re-elected in 2020, a new poll shows. But President Obama faced the same numbers at an equivalent point in his presidency.
In the CNN survey, 54 percent of respondents said they thought voters would give Trump the boot after his first...

A message approved by Sarah Jessica Parker herself: SJP has taken to Instagram to officially endorse Cynthia Nixon for governor. Grool!
The Divorce star took to Instagram to announce the news, writing that Nixon has her “love, support and vote.” She continued, “A mother, an...

The husband of presidential adviser Kellyanne Conway has gone on a full-blast Twitter offensive — against his wife's boss, President Trump.
George Conway has sent nearly 100 tweets critical of Trump in the last month. He has only tweeted about 500 times in the six-year history of...

President Trump has attracted criticism with his nominee to head the United Nations' migrant relief organization, Ken Isaacs, as reporters have uncovered tweets by Isaacs expressing anti-Muslim views and support of conspiracy theories.
Who is Ken Isaacs?
Ken Isaacs is a vice president at...

Suddenly, the most volatile president in American history is spinning even more wildly out of control, hell-bent on ripping the handcuffs off and turning up the Trumpitude to 11.
And you probably thought he was at full blast already. Just wait. Just wait.
We’ve arrived at a deeply...

A huge gender gap has opened up between the two political parties among millennial voters: 70 percent of women born after 1980 favor Democrats, while only 23 percent identify as Republicans.
Millennial men favor Democrats 49 percent to 41 percent. Both sets of data come from a new survey by Pew...

Former Vice President Joe Biden stepped up to trash-talk President Trump on Tuesday night, and for a full day, the internet was riveted by a pissing contest between two septuagenarians.
At an anti-sexual assault rally at the University of Miami, Biden made the surprising initial volley. "A...

The Democratic Party is increasingly attracting people with more education, while the Republican Party is attracting people with less, according to a new study by Pew Research Center, which says the educational gap is the widest in the survey's two-decade history.
In 2017, 54 percent of...

For years, Republicans have repeated an earnest trope about President Bill Clinton: He was not impeached for his repeated, sexual dalliances with a White House intern. He was impeached for lying about it. Despite Clinton’s tortured attempts to say he never really fibbed, this has hardened...

On Tuesday, President Trump made a call to Russian President Vladimir Putin to "congratulate" him on being the "winner" in the Russian presidential "elections," a move that drew criticism even from members of Trump's party.
During a photo op in the afternoon, the...

The real estate company co-owned by presidential adviser Jared Kushner, Kushner Cos., falsified paperwork to push rent-regulated tenants out of apartment buildings so they could sell them at higher prices and boost profits, the Associated Press reported Sunday.
New York City law protected hundreds...

Ready, aim…fire Robert Mueller!
Isn’t that where Donald Trump is heading next? He’s sending out some dire signals, that’s for sure.
In a barrage of increasingly furious weekend tweets, the angry president complained with fresh bitterness about the terrible unfairness of...